Plug and Play selects 158 startups for its final accelerator batch of the year

Global accelerator program Plug and Play announced last week it has selected 158 startups to participate in its Winter 2018 batches. According to Plug and Play, the selected startups will take part in one of the following programs: Energy & Sustainability, Enterprise 2.0, Health, Insurtech, Internet of Things, Mobility, Real Estate, or Travel & Hospitality.

“We have selected a group of amazing startups to participate in our programs. They are solving some of the most challenging problems across multiple industries. We have seen a number of early engagements from our corporate partners and VC friends, which is certainly one of the key indicators of a great start,” shared Ivan Zgomba, Partner at Plug and Play Ventures.

During the next twelve weeks, startups in each program will be able to attend exclusive events, meet with Plug and Play’s corporate partner network, and collaborate with other companies in the ecosystem. Unlike other accelerators, Plug and Play does not take equity for participating in the program, but actively invests in a large number of companies every year.

Plug and Play also reported that during the twelve-week program startups in each program will be able to attend exclusive events, meet with the accelerator’s corporate partner network, and collaborate with other companies in the ecosystem.

the startups are:

Energy & Sustainability

Aurtra –Aurtra is an IOT/Big Data based solution that delivers an online condition monitoring service for transformer assets used by electric utility and large energy uses based on a SAAS business model. View their Website >

Blacksands – Blacksands is transforming business by allowing companies to control connections to singular devices, applications and services at will for third party access, without cumbersome set up and maintenance, significant overhead nor increased network risk. View their Website >

Breezi – With our platform and our connected device, AirPulse, we help homeowner’s track the fitness of their HVAC to avoid repairs, save energy, and breathe clean air. View their Website >

BuildPulse – BuildPulse connects to communicating assets in buildings to collect and normalize data and provide analytics and optimization for them. View their Website >

Chargehub – Mogile Technologies builds the ChargeHub platform. ChargeHub is a community driven platform that helps electric vehicle drivers beat “range anxiety” by helping them find over 60,000 public charging stations in Canada and the US. View their Website >

CleanO2 – CleanO2 Carbon Capture Technologies has developed a unique application, which directly removes approximately 5 metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year per unit. View their Website >

Evolve Energy – With our autonomous load management software, residential and SMB customers can take advantage of the very low-priced TOU or real-time wholesale rates while minimizing their exposure to high-priced hours. View their Website >

HST Solar – Our platform has been used to design over 45 GW of solar power projects globally and our suite of applications include feasibility and design, energy marketing, as well as equipment and financing marketplace. View their Website >

KeraCel – KeraCel is the creator of a revolutionary solid-state battery that is safe, 2-3 times longer lasting, half the cost for the same energy as the best batteries in the market, and can be built to fit into any shape. View their Website >

Place to Plug – Place to Plug is a Blockchain based platform that connects electric vehicle drivers and charging points. View their Website >

Qlair – Qlair is the leading platform for proactive clean air management in commercial buildings using Artificial Intelligent (AI) based technology. View their Website >

Salient Energy – Salient Energy is developing a new type of battery called the zinc-ion battery. It is made with far cheaper and more abundant raw materials than lithium-ion, has double the service life, and uses an intrinsically safe water-based chemistry. View their Website >

Beaconforce – Software that uses biometrics and AI to extract real time insights about what makes people intrinsically motivated and leads them to create environments where they can achieve their potential. View their Website >

Clearlaw – Clearlaw helps enterprises close deals more quickly by providing an AI Assistant to help guide in-house legal teams throughout the contract review and negotiations process. View their Website >

nlightn – The analytical intelligence cloud based SaaS platform that computes and delivers automated business insights empowering business leaders to make timely, effective decisions View their Website >

Swarm – Swarm is a SAAS platform to find the people who will transform your organization. View their Website >

Taloflow – Taloflow is an event-driven data collection platform that works with all layers — including the business layer — and is coupled with decision-making and AI engines to drive real-time end-to-end observability and actionability over your event-driven architecture. View their Website >

ChromoCare –ChromoCare is a healthcare services company providing Employer Groups with a unique medication-compatibility genetic testing platform that is based on the employee’s individual genetic variants. View their Website >

Chronus Health – Chronus Health is building a portable diagnostic platform that reduces turnaround times for blood tests from days to minutes. View their Website >

Ginger.io – Ginger.io provides people with the right level of emotional support and guidance, at the right time through coaching, therapy and psychiatry – all from the convenience of a smartphone app. View their Website >

Helpsy – Helpsy is a smart Oncology symptom management platform for patients and HCP to decrease adverse events and treatment disruptions and improve quality of life. View their Website >

Koniku – Koniku makes devices that have the smelling capability of a dog’s nose. The device can be used for cancer diagnostics, bacteria screening in cancer units, even “smelling” for mental illness. View their Website >

Limbix – J Limbix provides the complete VR system for clinics, hospitals, and mental health centers. Their mission is to improve patient care with virtual reality. View their Website >

Onesoftdigm – Onesoftdigm (USA) developed first Pocket-size portable device that measures body composition through BIA technology. We also developed mobile app so customers can efficiently and consistently manage their results. View their Website >

VastBiome – VastBiome harmonizes and contextualizes data across the clinical spectrum of immune disease and uses AI to understand the core mechanisms through which the microbiome controls the human immune system. View their Website >

Woebot – Woebot is an app that delivers in-the-moment emotional assistance based on cognitive behavior therapy through friendly conversation, leading reductions in both cost and risk, and dramatically increases access to CBT. View their Website >

Insurtech

Agentero – Agentero is building software to help insurance agents serve their customers more effectively. View their Website >

BeemaBroker – BeemaBroker makes business insurance easy to understand, purchase and manage for millennial business owners and small business owners.View their Website >

BetterDrive – BetterDrive is transforming how insurance reaches millennials & how they engage with it.View their Website >

Chisel – Chisel can read and understand unstructured and structured text just like a human. View their Website >

ContinUse Biometrics – ContinUse Biometrics is bringing to the market the only remote, effortless and non-touch sensing technology that both authenticates users and monitors their physiological state. View their Website >

Streametric – STREAMETRIC is a digital service platform that helps these operators of water and wastewater treatment facilities meet and exceed their targets for productivity, costs and quality. View their Website >

Ubiquios – The ubiquios full stack simplifies the development of wireless IoT devices. View their Website >

VLNComm – VLNComm’s LiFi solution offers an alternative to WiFi by using optical energy for wireless connectivity, and integrates access-points into lights. View their Website >

Mobility

aiPod – aiPod is developing city-integrated autonomous Mobility-as-a-Service by leading pilots of autonomous mobility in complex urban environments in concert with the right stakeholders. View their Website >

Brodmann17 – Brodmann17 is a software company, who has developed a deep neural network (DNN) with game-changing technology that can handle real time deep-learning vision on low power processors. View their Website >

Watt-Learn – Watt-Learn goal is to give people independence from infrastructure, by making user-friendly device, which will be able to become universal electricity source for human life View their Website >

Wavelength – Wavelength has a Distributed Sensor Platform, which distributes low power processing to the edge, instead of a centralized platform.

Form Found Design – Form Found Design, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based startup using six-axis industrial robots to cast concrete with precision levels usually reserved for the auto industry. View their Website >

OnSiteIQ – OnSiteIQ is a progress documentation platform for owners and developers. View their Website >

RealWear – RealWear is a knowledge transfer company that provides in-situ information and in-the-field training to help people improve safety and increase productivity at work. View their Website >

Travel & Hospitality

Aerones – We are building heavy lifting drones which can lift up to 200kg. We have a version which is flying on batteries for rescue and delivery purposes and a tethered solution for industrial cleaning and firefighting, as well as deicing. View their Website >

Arevea – Online event management platform that enables users (Event Planners, Marketing/ Sales Event Coordinators, Office Managers, Executive Assistants) to create, plan / collaborate, book vendor services and invite guests for any type of event. Venues and vendors can run their entire business operations from leads to payments on the vendor portal. View their Website >

ClimaCell – ClimaCell is a weather tech company that uses new proprietary technologies to see weather that no one else can see. View their Website >

Destygo – Destygo is a B2B technology provider of A.I platform. We allow airlines, airports, travel agencies, and mobility companies to build a smart customer assistant for their travelers. View their Website >

Gladly – Gladly is seeking to reinvent customer service. We put people at the heart of the interaction, provide a lifetime of conversations to the agents, unlock data in secondary systems to make agents wildly productive every day. View their Website >

HYP3R – HYP3R is a location-based marketing platform that makes it easy for businesses to acquire and retain high-value customers. View their Website >

Liberio – Liberio provides Natural Language Processing based personalized search as a service to businesses to reduce R&D cost and to improve sales and conversion. View their Website >

Loyyal – Loyyal is the industry-leading blockchain platform for incentive management. We are built to incentivize any behavior, action, or event. The only limitation is imagination. View their Website >

LuggAgent – Same day luggage delivery service between airports and hotels for travelers who take the early arrival or late departure flights. View their Website >

Mydutyfree –Mydutyfree is a marketplace for travel retail. We help airports and airlines increase non-aviation sales. And let travelers buy whatever they want using the advantage of duty-free prices. View their Website >